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Weekend rains could bring cooling relief
Brownfield’s meteorologist says rain in the forecast for the central and northern Corn Belt at the end of this week and into next is likely to limp along moisture needs.
“Two separate weather systems should provide at least some nominal relief, it may come at a price of more severe weather-related issues than anything in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin.”
Greg Soulje says more than an inch of rain could accumulate at the beginning of next week across Indiana and Illinois but for areas like Michigan, with more than 90 percent of the state in some form of drought, a few rain systems are not enough for substantial improvement.
“Nothing sustainable in the subsurface and maybe just a weak categorical improvement in the drought monitor at some point early next week,” he says.
For the Dakotas, which are almost completely under drought conditions, Soulje says, “Not much of anything significant, substantial, sustainable improvement in the drought weather pattern across the Dakotas, probably not till we get into the late summer or even Autumn season there.”
What the storms will bring Soulje says is cooler weather which should ease moisture requirements of crops for a bit.
“There are indications that in that Great Lakes corridor, back into parts of the southern Canadian Prairie, we’ll begin to see some more recurring rainfall as it applies to mid to late summertime as we get into the new month of July,” he forecasts.
Part of the relief Soulje expects to come as remnants of tropical storm systems moving up from the Gulf.
